Guy who tweeted this doesn’t fight.

https://eu.usatoday.com/story/sports/boxing/2026/01/28/gervonta-tank-davis-police-custody-arrest/88405886007/

Gervonta “Tank” Davis was arrested and booked Wednesday, Jan. 28 on charges of attempted kidnapping, false imprisonment and battery, according to records with the Miami-Dade County, Florida Clerk of Court and Corrections and Rehabilation Department.

Davis, 31, was being held at Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center, according to the records. The action against boxer stems from a woman saying Davis attacked her while she was working at Tootsie’s Cabaret strip club Oct. 27 in Miami Gardens.

How will they resist?

cat pictures

You’re welcome

and you can only wrestle one person at a time, and a lot of street-violence is groups

I don’t recommend collapsible batons: https://yewtu.be/watch?v=uDBv-Vo7B5M

I was pissing blood so had to take a month off hard training (docs said no vigourous exercise; the issue wasn’t just contact), spent it shadowboxing and developing my hips, especially doing this to get better at holding my feet in the air. I do it throughout the day whenever I have a few seconds:

I did something really clever in boxing yesterday but I forget exactly what it was. I read the boy and thought “if I do this then this then this, I can probably land over his left shoulder”. Maybe it was jab, right-step, right-cross. Satisfying when a plan works perfectly.

Working on a mentally relaxed state-of-mind. Sometimes I have it and sometimes I don’t, but when I am in the right state, I can see a combo coming and stay in a small defensive position and defend a whole combo with a series of small movements. Also generally trying to move less, not over-react, just tiny movements are fine.

While being thrown in jail for manslaughter is arguably better than being killed

better to be judged by 12 than carried by 6 🙂

This is a wrong view and you should self-crit.

leaves you exposed to live shots

Hey, mod of !combat@lemmy.ml here. Happy to answer questions.

When choosing a martial art, you’re not choosing in an ideal world, you’re choosing in your city. You need to find a good gym you can travel to, with good coaches and a schedule that works for you.

I’m going to move to a bigger city in September, and there’s a lot of stuff available, so you can comment on the more niche options.

Step one: spend an hour searching what’s available there. Check their timetables to make sure you can fit it in, and then get back to us. Then you need to go to the gym and make sure you like the vibes there. A good student-teacher relationship is essential.

Decent answers here already. Like 389aaa saying"My number one piece of advice is that the best martial art is the one you will practice consistently" – and that largely has to do with liking the crew.

try to find a bjj gym that incorporates judo

Judo in recent years has focused more on ground submission grappling (ne-waza), so with judo you’ll do some submission grappling. Though still, BJJ guys are far better at ne-waza than judoka.

Adam Fugitt vs. Ty Miller – Good fight

Nikita Krylov vs. Modestas Bukauskas – Good fight

I’ve never seen Ateba Gautier fight before, he’s phenomenal.

Shotgun to be specific

Start

He’s on his phone and gets sucker-punched, so you can’t fault him for the first stumble. Watch his right ankle; it’s all wrong; if he’d taken a proper step back with his right foot he wouldn’t’ve fallen, but that’s the element of surprise. The attacker wastes the element f surprise by not delivering a decisive blow to the head, instead doing a sort of push:

He stands up

The way he fell means he stands up with his left foot forward, but he gets his right foot back quickly enough. Moreover, look at how he gets his chin/head into position; his hands aren’t in guard but that’s ok from that distance because he uses head-movement. The punch he evades is slow because the attacker switches stances (starts the punch right foot behind, ends it right foot in front), and also because he winds it up massively:

Watch the waiter’s right leg here, how he loads it

☝️The attacker continues to switch stances: right-forward, left-forward☝️

Look at the waiter’s left foot: tiny step to the left to add power to the right hook.

Right hook

Best thing about this is the target-selection, aimed at the jaw/chin (and also the loaded leg and step we just looked at):

Slip, slip, roll, counter

He slips left, slips right; the attacker hesitates/freezes for a moment under cognitive load; should have thrown a knee. He sees the attacker loading up a slow right and rolls under it (keeps his left hand in a defensive position as he rolls left), countering again to the same target:

Yesterday I tomoenage’d a guy who’d represented Poland at the national level. 😀

I need to drill out a bad defensive habit caused by boxing gloves: shelling up in defense with the hands resting on the face. Works great with boxing gloves, but boxing ≠ fighting.

Having said that, my striking defenses have really improved in the past month. I frequently see entire combos coming and go block-block-block with no panic no hurry.

I sparred a huge bodybuilder boy recently, enormous biceps, showy muscles. Pretty quick, I realized his feet were much slower than mine. Proud I got that read. And I made good use of it, kept sniping him with combos and getting out quickly. Basically the cliché lumbering muscle-bound giant he was.

Working on getting to the anaconda choke when boys are turtling. PS: like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOlOmHRDyLY